After Ji Liyou waited for the woman to leave, he asked the storyteller, "Do you care about this noisy matter?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"You should forget about it. You should be in charge. Besides, the person who died was a good and honest official. If you go and find out, it will be considered a blessing." Ji Liyou said.
"Everything must be seen with your eyes and heard with your ears. What do you believe in what she says?"
"What's the benefit of her lying to you?" Ji Li asked worriedly.
"Okay, just take a walk."
"Where to go?" Ji Liyou asked him to take him with him.
"Don't follow me. This time I'm going to catch a very vicious ghost. Are you not afraid if you follow me?"
"Oh, since you are here anyway, let me go with you. I have nothing to do here."
"Have you finished reading the book Ji Fuwei left for you?"
He curled his lips and said, "Grandpa's book... I can't finish it all at once... I have to read and taste it slowly... Haste makes waste!" Ji Liyou chuckled.
He said in a low voice, "It's really torturous that people are dead and so many books are left behind."
"Should we go to Honglu first?" he asked the storyteller.
“Wherever things happen, that’s where we go.”
He thought it would be easy to get to Honglu this time, but he didn't expect that the storyteller actually called a carriage.
"Pay." He got on the carriage, opened the curtain and said to Ji Liyou.
"Ah?" Ji Li was confused.
"How do we go there by carriage?" He reluctantly handed over his purse to the coachman.
"Stay calm on your horse, I'm dizzy." Ji Liyou ordered the man.
The people in the car sat down and said, "If he doesn't come with us, you can drive the horse."
Ji Liyou pointed at himself and said, "I... I will drive your horse for you... How could I... give it to you..."
"If you don't leave, it will be dark when you get there. Which hotel do you want to go to at night?" The fan opened and made a clear sound.
"I'm sick of carriages, and you asked me to drive you." He got on the carriage.
There are seven or eight hotels on this street, two of which are relatively luxurious. Zhu Shuo and his family live in one of them. It took him more than ten years to get a promotion in the small town. It is said that he is a good person. He was quite upright and did not talk about human relations, which offended many colleagues. The right and wrong in the officialdom could not be discussed in a day.
When he arrived at the hotel called Chongju Lai, Ji Liyou felt that all the bones in his body were about to fall apart. When he looked at him coming down behind him, he looked relaxed and not tired at all.
Ji Liyou muttered, "That's right. I'm driving the carriage, and you're not tired. You can close your eyes and rest your mind, just like an old man playing with birds."
Foreigners from various states and counties stayed here. There were rooms everywhere, one next to the other. People with all kinds of eyes and skin. When they arrived in the car, it was already dark, and the atmosphere was weird as they imagined. It didn't come, Ji Liyou breathed a sigh of relief.
"You know how to scare me every day."
The storyteller said, "You want to scare yourself, who can blame you?"
There was a foreign singing voice coming from a window upstairs. Ji Liyou recognized it for a moment and recognized that it was Dong Hu dialect.
Ji Liyou was about to go to inquire about the news, but he stopped him and said, "Let's stay here for one night and talk about it tomorrow."
"Isn't it your usual style to fight quickly?"
"Suddenly I discovered something interesting. It is necessary to stay here for a while."
"What is it?"
"Children, don't pry."
"I just know that if you don't say anything, your breath will be in vain."
While talking, the storyteller had already asked for two upper rooms. Ji Liyou hesitated, "If there is a ghost in the middle of the night, your room is so far away from me, and you won't be able to hear me even if I scream."
The storyteller asked, "What do you want to do?"
"I... how about... I sleep in the same room with you?" He pushed his shoulder.
After being glanced at by him, he was so frightened that he immediately backed away, "Okay, okay, I won't touch you."
"I heard that the Donghu people have nomadic divination masters. It's better to finish the work and let me do the divination. If you don't want to do it for me, I'll find someone else to do it."
"As you wish." He said.
The waiter went upstairs and brought a basin of clean water to Ji Liyou and asked him to wipe his hands. Ji Liyou asked while washing his hands, "I heard that your place is haunted, is it true?"
The waiter whispered in his ear, "Shh, there were no guests a while ago. It's hard to find these people staying in the hotel tonight. Don't leave in a hurry."
"Of course not, I'll keep my voice down."
"But why do you ask this, young master?"
"It's like this. As for me, my family owns a teahouse. I take care of the accounts. I...my brother, who tells stories in the teahouse, always has to listen to some weird anecdotes before he can tell the story. If the guests don't listen to him for a day, Storytelling, those guys don’t want to come to our teahouse anymore, I don’t have any bad intentions, and I’m not from this city, you see… Could you please tell me about this for your convenience?”
He had already put a piece of gold into his hand. The little brother weighed it a few times and said, "You can go back and say yes, but in our city, you are not allowed to talk nonsense."
"Of course, I am the most trustworthy person."
"I actually don't know much. After all, I didn't see it with my own eyes. That day I heard people upstairs shouting "killer, murderer." Later, many officers and soldiers came and took the person away. I don't know much about the rest."
"You always know who the dead person is, right?"
The waiter hesitated, "This..."
Ji Liyou took out another ingot of gold, "Can you remember it now?"
"Oh, I have such a good memory... I heard that he was an official. He took his whole family to a new place for promotion. He passed by and stayed here for one night. What's his name... Mr. Zhu... I heard he was called Mr. Zhu. But the villain doesn’t know the specific words and names.”
Ji Liyou nodded, "I wish the people in your hotel wouldn't know everything after Master Zhu died?"
The waiter smiled and said, "If you want to know, it's all just hearsay. If you want to hear about it, young master, if you don't mind the trouble, you can also listen to it as a joke."
Ji Liyou continued, "If you have any trouble, just tell me. If I'm sleepy, you don't have to tell me."
"Okay, sir, I heard from other people that Mr. Zhu is a good official, upright and never accepts bribes."
Ji Liyou had already heard these words from the woman, and was not very interested, "Is there anything more?"
"It's just that... no one is perfect. I also heard that Master Zhu once set fire to a brothel."
"real?"
"Hahahahahahahaha, the villain has said that these things cannot be true or false, just treat them as a joke."
"You go on."
"Although he is decisive in judging cases, he always likes to use torture. People think that torture is not wrong if it is used on people who have committed heinous crimes, but... Lord Zhu, the torture used to judge people is called -"
"How?" Ji Liyou looked confused when he saw him.
He threw another ingot of gold. His eyes were so painful that he had no choice but to ignore the gold and said, "Keep talking."
"It's normal to treat men, but whenever there are crimes involving women, he will always use thickened shackles and special canes to deal with them. Especially almost every case involving prostitutes, he will always lead to adultery. In this case, when he tortured a prostitute, he would always hit the lower body so hard that the woman would be infertile. Whenever someone tried to dissuade her, he would say, "In this way, she will no longer be able to seduce men." Although his methods were cruel, many of them were Women in brothels who seduced their husbands are very grateful to him for his justice."
Ji Liyou listened for a while and felt a chill in his back. Is this really a good official who eliminates harm for the people
(End of chapter)